Improved machine for clipping horses  hair



P. ADIE.

Shearing Horses.

No. 79,293. Patented June30, 1868.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

PATRICK ADIE, OF THE STRAND, ENGLAND.

IMPROVED MACHVINE FOR CLIPPING HORSES HAIR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 79,293, dated June 30, 1868; antedated April 24, 1867.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PATRICK ADIE, of the Strand,in the county of Middlesex, in England,

mathematical instrument maker, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means and Machinery for Clipping Horses and other Animals; and I hereby declare-the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing, forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in clipping horses and other animals by means of a number of cutting-shears, so arranged on a comb that the length of the hair left can be regulated and the cutters guarded by means of said comb, so that the skin of the animal cannot be injured.

Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 repre' sents a side view of my improvements Fig. 2, the same in plan.

A A represent the body of the machine, made generally of steel; F, the front portion of A, made either straight or curved, being cut into teeth, pointed like a comb in the parallel portions, and being worked into tapered cutting-teeth behind these points, the cutting-edges being next B, which is a plate of steelwith tapered teeth at G, similar to the cutting parts of those of A at F, with the teeth facing againstthose atF. Thisplate is pressed against A by means of two screws, I I, passing through slotted holes in B, and screwed into A. The comb parts of the teeth at F proand to the cutters, which out both ways, clip all that comes between them, the thickness being regulated by the thickness of A, which can be varied. The size of the teeth can also such teeth or cuttersbeing vibrated by means,

in some machines, of a system of pinions, racks, pawls, wheels, &c., and in others of very complicated levers, worked by hand, by means of a spring. I do, therefore, lay no claim on any such machine; nor do I claim or intend to claim, broadly, the mode of using or apply-.

in g cutter-teethed plates made to slide on each other for the above-described purpose of hair or woolclipping.

But as in my machine I dispense entirely with racks, wheels, pawls, or any complication of compound levers, as also the recess or bend in plate A, Fig. 1, allows clipping hair or wool at any desired length by simply increasing or decreasing the bend in said plate; as, again, the vibratory motion of cutter-teethed plates A and B is obtained by means of the single, simple hand-lever L K D H, having its fulcrum at K, the end L working in the opening in plate B, which, as aforesaid, is held and guided in its Vibratory motion by screws I I, my machine is so muchsimpler than any other known or in use, that What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the United States, is

The combination of the teethed plates A and B, screws I and I, handle A H, with handle or lever L K D H, the whole constructed and operated in the manner and for the purpose above set forth and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand before two subscribing Witnesses. v PATRICK ADIE. Witnesses:

G. A. BARLOW, J All/LES CURRIE'. 

